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Jackie’s Eyes

The trio plus Kevin continued to explore the boardwalk attractions with Jackie often trailing behind, taking a few steps inches into midair surreptitiously before coming back down. She laughed as she bobbed up and down, climbing an invisible staircase at will. She could probably just make herself taller at will, but being able to levitate, or maybe even more, was something else entirely! Or maybe she could do both at the same time!

She had to be careful, because Kevin kept stealing glances back at her. He may have even seen something! He walked back sheepishly to be at her side. He really was so cute!

“Hey, um, Jackie, do you want something to eat? Maybe… you and I later… alone?”

Jackie smiled at him, grabbed his arm, and put it around her own svelte waist. He gasped from intimate contact with her body. Her natural self-controlled perfume wafted over him. Jackie could see the bulge she had inspired with no effort! She put a little extra into her touch too, tracing her smooth, soft fingers across his forearm, feeling his goosebumps rise and his body start to quiver.

“Sure thing, Kevin. Let’s play some Elver Scrolls later too. I need your help on some quests.”

“Mmmm!! Okay!!” He tried not to moan from his out of control arousal. He would have done anything she asked!

“Hey! Lovebirds!” Lisa yelled back. Marie giggled.

“Yes, Lisa?” Jackie asked, ceasing her rubbing. Kevin sighed, sagging in both relief and disappointment. Hopefully his erection would fade soon. He discreetly adjusted his pants.

“Come on! Let’s go play this duck game!” She stomped off toward the booth.

“Little miss track star is just upset that you beat her at that clown bashing game!” Marie winked at Jackie.

“Am not!” Lisa yelled without looking back, huffing even more furiously.

“Shall we?” Jackie almost floated off her feet as she surged forward.

“Whoa! Jackie! Okay!” Kevin trailed behind her, being dragged by the unbreakable bind of her arm to her back.

They arrived at the torn, dilapidated bench. In front of them were water pistols and a bullseye, with displays of cute yellow ducks preparing to run left to right. They slapped some wrinkled dollar bills to the teenager working the attraction, and the four of them sat down.

“I’m gonna win this time!” Lisa declared.

“Better let her win…” Marie muttered to Kevin. “She gets hyper competitive sometimes.”

The starting bell rang. All four of them aimed their laser-attachment squirt guns at the target. Jackie, with her incredible speed and sense of perception, was the first to realize that she had to aim slightly above the intended target for the stream of water to hit accurately, and her little duckie started to zoom ahead of the others.

“Noooo!” screamed Lisa.

Kevin was the first to nudge Jackie in the flank with his elbow.

“Jackie, I know you’re like… some kind of superhuman, but go easy for once!” he whispered.

Jackie gasped. Was her week-old secret already out!?

The distraction was enough to cause her to lose focus anyway, so her duck slowed its rocky forward wobble. Lisa’s little aquatic avatar finally found its pace and began to surf its way forward, finishing ahead of all the others.

“Yes!!!!” Lisa cheered.

She turned to rub it in her friends’ faces, but Marie was ready. With a mischievous smirk, she fired a jet of water right into Lisa’s face.

The jaded teenager behind the stall merely sighed and let the inevitable unfold.

“Ahhhh!” Lisa screamed as Marie rinsed her face with duck-racing water. She grabbed her own and fired back at Marie, splashing Jackie and Kevin in the process.

Soon, it was wet chaos. The three girls were spraying each other as Kevin stood on the sideline, watching them jump and squeal as they squirted each other.

Jackie got the best of it, what with her super speed and all. She watched her friends flailing around in slow motion, flinching and trying to block the streams of water, the rivulets tracing down their hair and the individual droplets flying through the air…

She watched in fascination as Lisa’s laser sight made a path straight to her own eyes. Letting the bright red beam strike her pupil, she suddenly felt as if she were absorbing that wavelength of energy. Jackie turned off her super speed, still in shock from that strange sensation. It was just like when she had realized that she could defy gravity…

Was… was this like that as well? Could she… emit laser pointers from her eyes? Ludicrous! And what use would that be, anyway?

“Okay, ladies, enough!” the adolescent boy’s voice cracked.

Giggling and exhausted, Marie and Lisa put back their water guns, collapsed on the bench, and wrung out their clothes. Jackie, mostly unaffected, began to squint her eyes and scrunch up her beautiful face.

“Uh, Jackie? Are you okay?” Kevin asked.

“Eep!” Jackie screamed as she emitted two faint beams of heat from her pupils. No… fucking… way! The concrete was singed where she had been looking!

“Do you need to sit down?” he continued.

“I’m… I’m okay!” What she really needed was some alone time at this point! Floating and eye lasers!?

“Okay girls, let’s go. We probably have time to check out one more thing before everything closes,” Lisa commanded.

“Girls, and Kevin!” Marie corrected.

Kevin chuckled. “Thanks. I felt like an intruder, kind of…”

“As long as you’re good to Jackie, you’re cool with us! But for sure, we are going to rip you apart in private!”

“Yeah. You better be good to Jackie.” Lisa concurred, with no hint of humor in her voice.

“Marie! Lisa! It’s okay! I can take care of myself,” Jackie replied.

They walked past other attractions. There was a hall of funny mirrors. Marie wanted to go in, but Jackie turned it down. She could already look however she wanted, anyway. When did a hall of mirrors ever do anyone any good?

They decided to enter a little haunted house. The entire thing was draped in black covers, cooled by fans placed at every corner in the blistering summer heat.

Focusing her newly enhanced eyes, Jackie found that, despite the dim lighting, she could see everything clear as day. Lisa and Marie squealed in terror as various goofy grotesque skeletons guarded every turn, with the occasional employee coming by and giving them the jump scare, hissing in their ear. Even Kevin got startled once.

Jackie just watched the employees with her x-ray eyes, giving them a beaming smile whenever they tried to come at her. She always knew where they were hiding, and they became far too unnerved to approach her.

“Eeee!” Marie screamed, giving a big shove to one of the younger, short, lightweight female workers. The poor girl tripped over her ill-fitting robe, stumbling backwards and nearly flipping over the handguard!

In an blur and a rush of wind, Jackie was there, supporting the young girl’s weight with a single outstretched arm behind her back. She hefted her up easily and placed her back on her feet. Lisa and Marie had already advanced, seeking to get out of the haunted mansion as soon as possible, unaware of what they had done.

“Hey, are you okay?” Jackie asked.

“Oh my god… you saved my life!!”

“It was… um… it’s nothing. I don’t think it would’ve been that bad.” Jackie scanned the long fall to the ground below with her eyes. ...Maybe it would have been that bad.

“Thank you thank you thank you!! Shit! I’m not working here anymore until they put in more safety!” She stripped off her robe, threw it to the ground in disgust, and made her own way to the exit.

Kevin was standing there, staring at her wide-eyed in amazement.

“You moved so fast… and you’re so strong…”

“I think it’s just your imagination!” Jackie tried to talk him down.

“And that day, when we, um… did, you know… that… I thought it was just my mind playing tricks on me…”

Jackie panicked.